I'm sure many of you are familiar with Steam's ability to get you to buy games with the intention of playing them later. But we all know how even the best intentions go.

I've decided I'm going to play through my Steam library and allow anyone who wants too, to join me in my quest. I'll be streaming play sessions live via Twitch, and then following those up with posts on the forum with my thoughts on the game and even video clips when I can make them available. Mumble chat will be open for anyone who wants to hop in and add to the conversation or make comments.

Below you will find the list of games I'll be playing (I've hidden it with a spoiler tag so it doesn't make this a huge long post) with more being added later if needed.

**UPDATE 1/10/16**: I've updated the game list below, adding some more games that have been added to the list as well as getting the dates and links in there as appropriate. Unfortunately, there were a few games I played last year that the videos apparently never got transferred over to Youtube, so I'm not able to provide links to them. I'm also deciding on a new schedule for games moving forward. I'll let you know once I have more information.

I didn't make this apparent in the post above, but I'm using a random number generator to choose the games I'm playing each week so even I won't know what games I'll be playing until the weekend before.

It's a neat little tool, but it's actually centered around a community database of how long it should take to beat any game. So aside from that number being incredibly arbitrary, the amount of time it calculates for your Steam catalog is based on finishing every game you haven't already logged enough time with for them to consider you having done so. Zero is being much more reasonable with his endeavors, giving each game a few hours to decide whether it's even worth playing through or not.

You sure are right about the arbitrary nature of this tool. I got 1179. Both My kids have over 1000 hours in GMOD. I probably have a hundred plus in Killing Floor but it is a neat (if flawed) concept. Zero's tactic is WAY better to actually play the games in his STEAM library is a novel idea for many of us!

After seeing and hearing about the amazing rigs that many people have on these forums; it seems rather silly for me to the specs of my very modest gaming PC. It works and that's good enough for me.

Yeah, as Jacob said, that tool is very arbitrary. And I'm sure as hell not playing through all my steam library (I have many games that came with packs that I'll likely never touch). I'm playing through the games I've always wanted too, and some of them like *ahem* Kinetic Void, I'll likely never play beyond the couple hours I put into the streaming video.

But, at least I'm able to give people some opportunity to see games being played and their thoughts on them! And I'm also planning on doing some bonus videos over the course of playing through these games for games I really enjoy and may not even be through steam.

Like for instance this upcoming Saturday Jan 24th I'm doing a Bonus Episode playing Elite Dangerous! So stay tuned for that!

Sorry for the sudden burst of updates to all the other threads. I'm going to make sure to stay on top of these moving forward. So you should start seeing the follow up posts the day after I do the stream.

I just realized I have a scheduling conflict on Wednesday this next week. Rather than try to work around this, I'm just going to cancel Wednesday and push Tower Wars to Monday next Week. So the schedule for the next two weeks will be:

Monday March 16th - Sniper Ghost WarriorWednesday March 18th - Assassin's Creed RevelationsFriday March 20th - Cancelled due to TATER SMASH! (We'll likely be doing a lot of streaming during the weekend so stayed tuned for that!)

Alright, I know its been a while without an update, but I'm hoping to get this going again soon. I should have more details here in the next few days (possibly as late as this weekend), and I'm also thinking about expanding my videos to include some tutorials as well.

Also, if someone is interested is there any game they would like to see me play more regularly? (Elite Dangerous, Minecraft, etc.) I'm also looking into possibly doing a Let's Play series just for fun. Maybe we could find a game that several people enjoy and do a Multiplayer Let's Play Series? I'm open to suggestions.

So I know its been a REALLY long time since I last streamed one of my games. Somethings happened earlier last year that all kind of culminated in me not really having all the time I wanted nor the best setup for doing these streams (moving to a new apartment, new computer build, internet issues at my new apartment, changes to my personal schedule, etc, etc, etc).

Anyways, its a new year and I want to get this going again! To get things started off, I've joined up with the Distant Worlds Expedition in Elite Dangerous and I'll be streaming/recording a good portion of my journey. I'll try to nail down a weekly schedule for doing the Distant Worlds streams and post it here once I have it. The kick off for the expedition is January 14th @8pm CST so if you're interested in this at all I'll be kicking things off then. I'll also try to give everyone a heads up of any upcoming streams that will be covering major events during the expedition, etc.

But getting back to the main goal of this thread, since I'm going to be getting back into streaming I want to get started back on my list of games. I'll hopefully have a complete schedule for my various streams by Friday the 15th so that I can get things started off next week. Let me know if there are any games in my list in the first post that you would like to see streamed and I'll make sure they get in the rotation early.

What days will you be streaming? I'd like to see Tomb Raider, but it would have to be on a day where I'm free. Thursdays generally aren't good (rather, every other Thursday), and last night was one of them where I was busy. Otherwise I could probably make any other day.

Cool. I'll try to catch the stream of Tomb Raider. However, this week does not appear to be the best. What day were you thinking of playing it? Tonight I might not be home, and Friday I'm at work during the stream. Saturday is always unknown too.